#1744 Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly
Air Date: 10-14-2025
It's said that money can't buy a variety of things like peace, happiness, loyalty, and, relevant for today; integrity and trust. But in a world in which impressions (a very multilayered word, in this case) can be bought and sold on the open market and an audience's loyalty to influencers, entertainers, and athletes can be leveraged in an attempt to transfer the credibility from the talented to the tyrannical... you better believe places like Saudi Arabia and Israel are going to try.
Read more#1743 Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America
Air Date: 10-10-2025
The strategy that Trump and the masterminds behind Project 2025 are following is to move as fast as possible to implement their agenda because they know perfectly well how unpopular it is and will be as time goes on. It's hard to argue that anything good will come of this but I'm going to try during my comments anyway.
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Read more#1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism
Air Date: 10-7-2025
The Trump administration has been doing what we knew it would: breaking laws and losing about 95% of their court battles. And the conservatively stacked Supreme Court has been doing what we knew it would: overwhelmingly ruling for Trump to cover his tracks because that's what they were put there to do.
Read more#1740 Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts
Air Date: 09-30-25
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we track the dangerous convergence of domestic collapse and international chaos by looking at political violence and martyrdom accelerating division, institutional capture from the courts to the media, the dismantling of voting rights and public health infrastructure, military deployments at home and wars abroad, plus the resistance movements fighting back through town halls, labor organizing, and revolutionary art despite overwhelming odds.
Read more#1741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal
Air Date: 10-3-2025
People around the world are angry, often for different reasons and even more frequently based on falsities - though not always. For instance, the Right in the UK and France are upset about immigration, though most of those who are angry are wrong about the facts. But there's also widespread dissatisfaction with national governments and pessimism about their ability to make life better over the short term, which is leading to much less predictable politics.
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